HSE323 - Clinical and Sport Biomechanics

Unit details

Only available to students enrolled in H343, D324, D394, S302 and S307.

Other students who would like to enrol in this unit must submit their request to ens-enquire@deakin.edu.au. Enrolment quotas apply.

Unit chair:

Jason Bonacci

Campus contact:

Burwood (Melbourne): Daniel Wundersitz

Prerequisite:

HSE202

Corequisite:

Must be enrolled in or have previously successfully completed HSE010

Incompatible with:

Nil

Contact hours:

2 x 1 hour classes per week, 11 x 2 hour laboratories per trimester

Content

This unit is designed to explore the applications and implications of the physical principles underlying efficient human movement. The unit examines aspects of muscle mechanics relevant to sports performance and injury prevention, and investigates methods of quantifying human motion. Data from kinematic, electromyographic and kinetic sources will be analysed and interpreted. Exemplary material is drawn from studies of human locomotion and of the activity of isolated single-joint movements to determine the effects of injury and the progress of rehabilitation.